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Author: Niels Engelen

Working as a Principal Analyst in Product Management for Veeam Software with an interest in anything virtual and cloud with a strong focus on AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365. He is also a VMware Certified Professional, a Veeam Certified Architect and gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2022).
VMware WSX TP2 now available including a Windows release

VMware WSX TP2 now available including a Windows release

“Virtual Machines in Your Browser”, it sounds cool right? A few months ago the first “WSX” Technical Preview was released. VMware engineer Christian Hammond has now released the second release which includes a Windows installer and some major updates. This means that if you haven’t tried the software due the fact that it was only running on Linux you now have a chance to test it! Keep in mind that this software is experimental at the moment and there is…

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New Fling: ThinApp Factory by VMware Labs

New Fling: ThinApp Factory by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called ThinApp Factory. The download is available as zip and exe and the total size is about 489MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: The ThinApp Factory is a virtual appliance that brings centralized administration and automation to the process of creating virtualized Windows applications with VMware ThinApp technology. ThinApp Factory utilizes vSphere API’s to spawn workloads which automatically convert fileshares of application installers into ThinApp application containers. These workloads can be run in…

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VMware Workstation 8.0.4 and VMware Fusion 4.1.3 released

VMware Workstation 8.0.4 and VMware Fusion 4.1.3 released

Today VMware released minor updates for VMware Workstation (bringing the version to 8.0.4) and VMware Fusion (bringing the version to 4.1.3). These contains a few bug and security fixes. They are available now and are free as usual. VMware Workstation General Issues Linux guests running the Linux kernel version 2.6.34 or later could not be pinged from the host via an IPv6 address. On rare occasions, Linux guests would suddenly fail to Autofit or enter Unity. Unity mode would exit…

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New Open Source Storage NAS on the block: NAS4Free

New Open Source Storage NAS on the block: NAS4Free

A few weeks ago I came across a new Open Source Storage NAS system: NAS4Free. This is another lightweight NAS system (like FreeNas, OpenFiler,…) which can be installed on Compact Flash/USB/SSD key, hard disk or booted of from a LiveCD. NAS4Free is build on FreeBSD 9.0 and has ZFS v28 included, it was first release on 2012-03-22. NAS4Free supports Software JBOD, RAID 0, 1 and 5 configurations as well as Hardware RAID. Besides several types of RAID you can also…

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Veeam Backup And Replication 6.1 released

Veeam Backup And Replication 6.1 released

Today Veeam announced their new major release: Veeam Backup and Replication 6.1. This major release includes several improvements and some interesting new additions. VeeamZIP: Version 6.1 includes a new capability for performing ad-hoc backups. In many ways, it functions like a zip utility for VMs. For this reason, it’s called VeeamZIP. Backup a VM on-the-fly: Instead of running the regular backup job (which typically contains multiple VMs and a specified number of restore points) or creating a new backup job,…

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